19 Baby Steps Toward a Self Sufficient Lifestyle - ONE

You hear in the news every day about things that happen that create hardships in families.  Loss of job, illness, loss of loved one, tornadoes and storms, government shutdowns, and on and on.  All of us will suffer through one of these.  It brings peace to the soul to be prepared when everything is crashing down around us.  Our grandparents and earlier generations knew this simple thing but many of us have forgotten in our world of everything being at our fingertips.  Need cash - run to the bank.  Need food - run to the store.  Have the sniffles - run to the doctor.  Forgot something - jump in the car. You get the point. We depend on the government and insurance companies to rescue us if there is a natural disaster and we depend on organized medicine to keep us healthy.

However, if something happens to what we depend on, we fall apart.  We don't have the ability to be ready for life's trials if we wait until the storms come to prepare. Alas, everywhere you look there are roadblocks to being able to take care of ourselves.  Not the least of these roadblocks is our dependency on transportation systems and the power infrastructure to deliver goods and energy to our homes.  On the other hand, with some time, perseverance and a bit of hard work, we all can take steps to be self reliant. And isn’t that what prepping is all about: being able to take care of our own needs no matter what?
 
Here is one of nineteen easy steps you can take to to start helping you being prepared for life's storms.  These are steps that do not require a farm, do not require acreage and do not require a lot of money.  They are practical steps that you can select from and learn to be able to take care of your family by being ready....

1.  Build up a emergency food supply

Stuff happens but you still have to eat. Start by building up a cupboard full of food.   Buy an extra can of food or box of cereal when you shop and over time you will have a cupboard full of food.  (no more rushing to the store for bread and milk when snow is predicted). No room... stuff it under the bed.

If you follow the guidelines in 20 Items to Kick Start Your Food Storage Plan, you will have more emergency food than 95% of your friends and neighbors.